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[PATCH] ;;;autoload-expand for special macros

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: "J.D. Smith" <jdtsmith <at> gmail.com>
Cc: philipk <at> posteo.net, 78995 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Subject: bug#78995: [PATCH] ;;;autoload-expand for special macros
Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:03:00 +0300

> From: "J.D. Smith" <jdtsmith <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: philipk <at> posteo.net,  78995 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
> Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:16:05 -0400
> 
> > Can we have a comment here explaining the reason for the use of
> > autoload-macro?
> > And maybe here as well?
> > And here. x 4
> 
> I'm not sure what kind of comment you mean.

To explain why do we use this declaration there.

> None of the other declare
> forms are commented, either on definition or on use.

This one is much more subtle than the others.

> Are you thinking of something simple, like "request macro-expansion
> during autoload generation"?

No, I mean _why_ we want to request that in those places and not the
others.

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